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Builds the case for why adoptive families need support post-permanency. This article highlights six factors that adoptive parents believe positively impact their adjustment after adopting.

Provides an easy-to-understand explanation of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how ACEs can lead to toxic stress. Offers tips to reduce the impact of toxic stress.

Details the role and significance of kinship navigator programs and highlights examples of evidence-based kinship navigator programs in various states.

Provides behavioral and mental health professionals with an overview of child welfare, describes how these practitioners and child welfare workers can support each other, and offers additional information resources.

Discusses Tennessee’s Post-Permanency program, Adoption Support and Preservation|Guardianship Support and Preservation (ASAP|GSAP). Tennessee has supported families who provide permanency to children in the state’s foster care system for nearly 30 years.  This robust program offers services that include training for parents transitioning to adoption or guardianship, in-home counseling services (including crisis intervention), support groups, educational advocacy, coaching for parents, training for parents and professionals related to key issues in adoption and guardianship, social and recreational events for children and parents, and information and referral. Readers will learn more about the ASAP|GSAP program, successes and values.

Child welfare leaders and agencies will learn about an approach, called placement day analysis, that calculates the financial impact of diverting or shortening child welfare placements. Decision makers can identify the right interventions and program changes-those that are good for both children and lean agency budgets-to invest in moving forward.

Provides nine questions and associated criteria developed by Dr. Joseph Crumbley to guide post-permanency and kinship care professionals in assessing whether shared parenting is a viable option for birth parents and kinship caregivers.

Presents the benefits of supporting prospective parents, offers tips for building connections among support group participants, and outlines ways to help prospective parents develop their capacity to parent a child through adoption, foster care, or kinship care.

Provides an overview of the benefits of providing services to support adoptive, foster, and kinship families as well as examples of how various jurisdictions offer support.

Provides an overview of adoptive families’ challenges and the supports they most want.